Most Popular Books by John Jakes

DIVTwo visions of the world gone mad, from master storyteller John Jakes/divDIV In On Wheels, the United States has become so overpopulated that a tenth of its people have no home. Instead, they spend their lives on the highway. With all of the dangers of the road, dropping below forty miles per hour would mean certain death—even for men like Billy Spoiler. The clans of the open road spend their lives battling each other for control of the freeway, and the Spoilers are no exception. They never give up, never pull over, and never take their hand off the throttle./divDIV /divDIVOn the colony world of Six-Gun Planet, cowboys ride robot horses. In an effort to escape the corrupting influence of technology, the people of this strange, isolated world they call Missouri have reset the clock to 1880, building a civilization of main streets, saloons, and bordellos, where it is always high noon. Reluctant gunslinger Zak Randolf thinks the whole set-up is ridiculous, but he goes along with it because there’s good money in playing the part of a western hero. When notorious gunslinger Buffalo Yung challenges him to a duel, though, Zak gets serious. Missouri’s horses may be fake, but its bullets are definitely real. /divDIV /divDIVThis ebook bundle features an illustrated biography of John Jakes including rare images from the author’s personal collection./div

Georgia 1864: General Sherman''s army marches inexorably from Atlanta to the sea. In its path: the charming old city of Savannah, where the Lester ladies - attractive widow Sara and her feisty twelve-year-old daughter Hattie - struggle to save the family rice plantation. When Sherman offers the conquered city to President Lincoln as ''a Christmas gift,'' Hattie and the feared general find themselves on a collision course that will astonish both of them.

The Kent Family Chronicles continue as Confederate Corporal Jeremiah Kent carries out his commander''s dying request-while the Union Army ravages Georgia.

Relates the experiences of the Texas woman who, along with her baby, survived the 1836 massacre at the Alamo.

This play of A Christmas carol is faithful to the original story but includes the character of Charles Dickens.

"Hilarious, hard-hitting private eye - Johnny Havoc returns for his fourth and final adventure"...Forecast.

DIVBraving the ice marshes, Brak seeks his fortune in fabled Khurdisan/divDIV Of all the northern barbarians, none is more fearsome than Brak. Cast out by his tribe for daring to question their war-gods, he leaves the frozen north with plunder on his mind. Somewhere in the south, the legends say, lies Khurdisan—a golden land of sunshine, riches, and dark-skinned women. It will be a battle to get there, but battle is all Brak knows./divDIV /divDIVIn Brak the Barbarian, Brak seeks refuge in Kambda Kai, a once-great city brought to ruin by its worship of the demon god Yob-Haggoth. So wretched is the town that even its children know dark magic, and Brak will have to be quick with his broadsword to survive./divDIV /divDIVIn Mark of the Demons, Brak staggers across the desert of Logol, his pony dead, his food exhausted. There he meets a strange pair of highborn twins, whose throne has been stolen by a usurper. Can he trust them? He has no choice, if he wants to escape the wasteland alive./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook bundle contains additional stories featuring Brak the Barbarian, as well as an illustrated biography of John Jakes including rare images from the author’s personal collection. /div

A collaborative novel written by nine of today''s greatest Western authors, including John Jakes, Elmer Kelton and Robert J. Randisi.

A stunning anthology that brings the American West vividly to life, "The Fatal Frontier" showcases the exceptional talents of today''s most popular mystery and crime storytellers--including Elmore Leonard, John Jakes, Marcia Muller, Brian Garfield, Loren D. Estleman, and Robert J. Randisi--in tales of deadly choices, flaring passions, and the hard battles of men and women living on the edge of survival.

Amerika, efteråret 1864. Borgerkrigen nærmer sig sin afslutning, og Sydstaterne må se i øjnene, at slaget snart er tabt. Udisciplinerede nordstatssoldater fulgt af alskens pak fejer hærgende gennem Sydstaterne. Jeremiah Kents overordnede, oberstløjtnant Rose, giver på sit dødsleje den unge Jeremiah ordre til at tage til Georgia for at beskytte Roses kone og datter mod de vilde horder. Ordren betyder samtidig, at Jeremiah bliver nødt til at desertere ... John Jakes (f. 1932) er en amerikansk forfatter, der igennem 1950‘erne fik udgivet et utal af små historier for forskellige magasiner. Han forsøgte sig i adskillige genrer, heriblandt western, fantasy og science fiction, men i løbet af sin forfatterkarriere gjorde han sig særligt bemærket ved sin evne til at skrive historiske romaner, og især amerikansk historie fangede hans opmærksomhed. Dette gav blandt andet udslag i romanerne "North and South" (1982) og "American Dreams" (1998), der begge er udgivet på dansk. Flere af Jakes værker er desuden blevet lavet til film og tv-serier. Kent-sagaen er titlen på den højdramatiske og spændingsfyldte fortælling om familien Kent, der kommer fra usle kår i Frankrig til USA, hvor de får opbygget sig en vældig rigdom. Men tilværelsen i den nye verden fører også andet end rigdom med sig, og familien må stå sammen igennem både krig og fred og kærlighed og had.

"Lys & skygge" er den store medrivende saga om den tyske emigrantfamilie Kroner, der bliver til The Crown Family i århundredeskiftets Chicago. Joe Crown nåede at være med i den store borgerkrig mellem nord- og sydstaterne, og han har siden arbejdet sig op til positionen som velstående bryggeriejer. Men hans søn, Joe Jr., har rebelske og socialistiske ideer, der går stik imod faderens interesser. Fra Berlin emigrerer Joe Crowns dynamiske nevø, Paul, der hurtigt gør karriere på onklens bryggeri. Men han møder også sit livs vidunderlige, stormende kærlighed til Julie Vanderhoff fra det fornemme Vanderhoff-dynasti, der er svorne fjender af opkomlingen Joe Crown – og denne kærlighed falder ikke i god jord hos nogen af familierne. Dette er bind 3 og sidste bind i serien "Lys & skygge". John Jakes (f. 1932) er en amerikansk forfatter, der igennem 1950’erne fik Jakes udgivet et utal af små historier for forskellige magasiner. Han forsøgte sig i adskillige genrer, heriblandt western, fantasy og science fiction, men i løbet af sin forfatterkarriere gjorde han sig særligt bemærket ved sin evne til at skrive historiske romaner, og især amerikansk historie fangede hans opmærksomhed. Dette gav blandt andet udslag i romanerne "North and South" (1982) og "American Dreams" (1998), der begge er udgivet på dansk. Flere af Jakes værker er desuden blevet lavet til film og tv-serier. "Lys & Skygge" er den episke og medrivende saga om den tyske emigrantfamilie Kroner, der drager til USA og efter hårdt slid skaber sig et familiedynasti baseret på en bryggerivirksomhed.

Georgia, 1864: Sherman''s army marches from Atlanta to the sea. In its path, the charming old city of Savannah where the Lester ladies - attractive widowed Sara and her feisty twelve-year-old daughter Hattie - struggle to save the family rice plantation. When Sherman offers the conquered city to President Lincoln as "a Christmas gift", Hattie and the feared general find themselves on a collision course that will astonish both of them.

The Hazards, a wealthy Pennsylvania industrialist family, and the Mains, prosperous plantation owners from South Carolina, fight and intermarry with fiery abandon.

The "civilized" government of the planet Missouri was overthrown by revolutionaries who have embraced the lifestyle and culture of the United States'' Old West frontier. Suspicious of technology, the denizens of Missouri nevertheless ride robot horses and drink synthetic liquor to pass the time on a planet whose main source of income comes from exporting western souvenirs (i.e. miniature outhouses, wagons, revolvers, etc.), staging gunfights for tourists, and providing "living antiques" in the form of gunfighters being placed on other planets as zoo specimens.